Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > [snip] > > > It seems that I got rid of problem "bash: kpsexpand: command not found". > > > > Great. So it was simply a missing dependency problem. > > I don't understand how the p

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

"Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: [snip] > > It seems that I got rid of problem "bash: kpsexpand: command not found". > > Great. So it was simply a missing dependency problem. I don't understand how the problem has been resolve

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > > > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > > > > > > I have a feeling your postinstall scripts didn't run properly because > > > > of the screwed-up mounts. In fact, run > > > > > > > >

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

I nuked and restored the Windows disk from partimage saves (attempting to correct a problem unrelated to Cygwin). Partimage is a bit too finicky about the size of the destination partition, test full size and aborts even if the "used data" fill fit! As I was unable to recreate the partition I ha

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

"Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > > > > I have a feeling your postinstall scripts didn't run properly because > > > of the screwed-up mounts. In fact, run > > > > > > find /etc/postinstall -na

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At 01:10 AM 10/26/2004, you wrote: >"Larry Hall" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[snip] >> So you mean that when you ran 'setup.exe' and got to the page titled >> "Cygwin Setup - Choose Installation Directory", your "Root Directory" >> read as 'C:\Cygwin\bin' and you did not change that t

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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > [snip] > > Please select "Reinstall" for all of the packages in your zzz3.txt file. > [snip] > > "Select Packages" has the following actions: > * Keep > * Retrieve > * Source > * Uninstall > > I didn't find "Reinstall". Dave

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"Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > Please select "Reinstall" for all of the packages in your zzz3.txt file. [snip] "Select Packages" has the following actions: * Keep * Retrieve * Source * Uninstall I didn't find "Reinstall". -- Alex Vinokur email: alex

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > > I have a feeling your postinstall scripts didn't run properly because > > of the screwed-up mounts. In fact, run > > > > find /etc/postinstall -name \*.done | sed 's/\.done$//' | xargs cygcheck -f | uniq > > $ find /etc/po

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> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Alex Vinokur > Sent: 26 October 2004 15:09 > "Dave Korn" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Alex Vinokur > > > Sent: 26 October 2004 06:08 > > > > > "Dave K

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"Dave Korn" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Alex Vinokur > > Sent: 26 October 2004 06:08 > > > "Dave Korn" wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [snip] > > > Have you previously installed "For all users" and now >

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> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Alex Vinokur > Sent: 26 October 2004 06:08 > "Dave Korn" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [snip] > > Have you previously installed "For all users" and now > you're trying to install "Just for > > me", or perhaps vice-versa

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

"Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > > > > > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > 'mount' command,

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"Larry Hall" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > So you mean that when you ran 'setup.exe' and got to the page titled > "Cygwin Setup - Choose Installation Directory", your "Root Directory" > read as 'C:\Cygwin\bin' and you did not change that to > 'C:\cygwin_etc\_download\001'? [snip

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"Dave Korn" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > Have you previously installed "For all users" and now you're trying to install "Just > for > me", or perhaps vice-versa? [snip] Where does one do that: "For all users" or "Just for me"? -- Alex Vinokur email: alex DOT vinokur A

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Alex Vinokur wrote: "David Baron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] All of these posters are complaining about the same thing. Not at all a bad idea to read the bash man page, the helps, everything. bash-2.05b$ man bash Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > > > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > 'mount' command, you can do something like > > > > > > > > mount -fst c:/cygwin / > > > > mo

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At 12:25 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote: >"Larry Hall" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> At 12:03 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote: >> >> >"Larry Hall" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >[snip] >> >> And how would you check to find out where 'kpsexpand' came from? Visit >> >>

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> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Alex Vinokur > Sent: 25 October 2004 17:25 > > Well, it looks like your mounts are wrong again. They now > all point to > > 'C:\cygwin_etc\_download\001' while your path points to > 'C:\cygwin\bin'. > > Perhaps during the reinstall

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"Larry Hall" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > At 12:03 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote: > > >"Larry Hall" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[snip] > >> And how would you check to find out where 'kpsexpand' came from? Visit > >> , enter 'kpsexpand', and pres

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: [snip] 'mount' command, you can do something like mount -fst c:/cygwin / mount -fst c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin mount -fst c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib [snip] There is some progress. Thanks. After that I have all m

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> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Alex Vinokur > Sent: 25 October 2004 14:50 > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [snip] > > 'mount' command, you can do something like > > > > mount -fst c:/cygwin / > > mount -fst c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin >

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At 12:03 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote: >"Larry Hall" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[snip] >> And how would you check to find out where 'kpsexpand' came from? Visit >> , enter 'kpsexpand', and press enter. Presto! >> You now know that 'kpsexpand' comes from the

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

"Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > [snip] > > > 'mount' command, you can do something like > > > > > > mount -fst c:/cygwin / > > > mount -fst c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin > > > mount -fst c:/cygwin/

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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > [snip] > > 'mount' command, you can do something like > > > > mount -fst c:/cygwin / > > mount -fst c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin > > mount -fst c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib > > > [snip] > > There is some progress. > Thanks. > > After that

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olved. Brian's >> suggestion may be all that's necessary to set this straight. >[snip] > >Thanks. I did that. See my posting in the tread titled >"startup problem // no longer works // profile not called" >at news://news.gmane.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

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storically caused problems. It's clear that at least at some > point in the past, you also installed Cygwin into 'C:\cygwin\bin\'. So I'd > recommend looking at this conflict and getting it resolved. Brian's > suggestion may be all that's necessary to set thi

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At 04:21 AM 10/25/2004, you wrote: >"Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please pay attention to this. We don't want to feed the spammers. >> Alex Vinokur wrote: >> >> > HOME = `c:\Documents and Settings\Admin

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > "Brian Dessent" dessentnet> wrote: . Thanks. > > Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > > > bash-2.05b$ man bash > > > Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf > > > No manual entry for bash > > > b

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"Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > bash-2.05b$ man bash > > Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf > > No manual entry for bash > > bash-2.05b$ > > Like I said, nothing is going to work until you fix you

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Alex Vinokur wrote: > bash-2.05b$ man bash > Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf > No manual entry for bash > bash-2.05b$ Like I said, nothing is going to work until you fix your mounts. I don't know what has changed on your system but your root "/" dir is mounted as

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"David Baron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > All of these posters are complaining about the same thing. > > Not at all a bad idea to read the bash man page, the helps, everything. bash-2.05b$ man bash Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf

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"Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > HOME = `c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator' > > Your home directory has spaces in it. THat's going to break some > things. See the users guide / FAQ. It worked for a long time (more than

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All of these posters are complaining about the same thing. Not at all a bad idea to read the bash man page, the helps, everything. But the fact is once clicking the Cygwin icon gave one an operating shell. It no longer does. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pro

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Alex Vinokur wrote: > HOME = `c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator' Your home directory has spaces in it. THat's going to break some things. See the users guide / FAQ. > C:\cygwin\_download\001/ system textmode > C:\cygwin\_download\001/bin/usr/b

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"Alex Vinokur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > I changed the Path environment. > $ cygcheck -svr > cygcheck.txt 2>&1 > File cygcheck.txt is attached. > It didn't help. > > I tried to read man bash. > > bash-2.05b$ man bash > Warning: cannot open configuration

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At 10:45 AM 10/24/2004, you wrote: >It seems that profile is not called. > >I put several aliases and "Hello from Cygwin" in profile. >However 'declare' doesn't show them. >Also Cywing window doesn't print "Hello from Cygwin". > >$ cygcheck -c cygwin >Cygwin Package Information >Package

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"Alex Vinokur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It seems that profile is not called. > > I put several aliases and "Hello from Cygwin" in profile. > However 'declare' doesn't show them. > Also Cywing window doesn't print "Hello from Cygwin". > > $ cygcheck -c cygwin >

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It seems that profile is not called. I put several aliases and "Hello from Cygwin" in profile. However 'declare' doesn't show them. Also Cywing window doesn't print "Hello from Cygwin". $ cygcheck -c cygwin Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygwin